Joseph M. Siry is a leading American architectural historian and professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Wesleyan University. Siry's publications have focused particularly on the architecture of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and the

Prairie School Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in ...

. Siry received his education at Princeton University (B.A.), the University of Pennsylvania (

M.Arch. The “Master of Architecture”(M.Arch or MArch) or a “Bachelor of Architecture” is a professional degree in architecture, qualifying the graduate to move through the various stages of professional accreditation (internship, exams) that resu ...

), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.). Siry's book, ''The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City'' received the

Alice Davis Hitchcock Award The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, established in 1949, by the Society of Architectural Historians, annually recognizes "the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar." The oldes ...

of the

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in 2003. He is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Books

* Siry, Joseph M., ''Carson Pirie Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store'', University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1988, * Siry, Joseph M., ''The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City'', University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2002, * Siry, Joseph M., ''Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion'', Cambridge University Press, London and New York 1998, * Siry, Joseph M., "Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture", University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2012,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Siry, Joseph Living people American architecture writers American male non-fiction writers American architectural historians Princeton University alumni University of Pennsylvania School of Design alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Wesleyan University faculty Year of birth missing (living people)